Grunt

In this course you'll learn how to create a custom generator for the web app scaffolding tool, Yeoman. We'll start by looking at how to use Yeoman with community-built generators, and then we'll move on to implementing a custom generator that scaffolds my favorite stack for web application development.

In this course you'll learn how to create a custom generator for the web app scaffolding tool, Yeoman. We'll start by looking at how to use Yeoman with community-built generators, and then we'll move on to implementing a custom generator that scaffolds my favorite stack for web application development.Read More…

Grunt is a proven task runner, used in many different ways, across many different platforms. Here, we're going to look at defining a solid foundation on which to base your WordPress development.

Grunt is a proven task runner, used in many different ways, across many different platforms. Here, we're going to look at defining a solid foundation on which to base your WordPress development.Read More…

As developers we should always be looking for ways to speed up and automate our workflow as much as we can but this isn't always an easy process. We have to remember to compile, minimize, concatenate and overall make our files more efficient to ensure faster load times to our end users while keeping an organized file structure that allows us apply changes easily. Luckily there are tools that help us with this process and I would like to share how I have set them up to improve my WordPress theme development.

As developers we should always be looking for ways to speed up and automate our workflow as much as we can but this isn't always an easy process. We have to remember to compile, minimize, concatenate and overall make our files more efficient to ensure faster load times to our end users while keeping an organized file structure that allows us apply changes easily. Luckily there are tools that help us with this process and I would like to share how I have set them up to improve my WordPress theme development.Read More…

If you’re working on a large project, you’ll no doubt have a build script or a bunch of task scripts to help with some of the repetitive parts of the process. You might use Ant or Rake, depending on the language the project is written in.
But what do you use if the project is primarily JavaScript? That’s the problem Ben Alman set out to solve when he created Grunt.

If you’re working on a large project, you’ll no doubt have a build script or a bunch of task scripts to help with some of the repetitive parts of the process. You might use Ant or Rake, depending on the language the project is written in.
But what do you use if the project is primarily JavaScript? That’s the problem Ben Alman set out to solve when he created Grunt.Read More…